On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11 May 2017, at 19:52, Mark Duggan <mduggan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> From reading through the mailing list, it does appear that it's possible to have the ovirt nodes/hosts be VMware virtual machines, once I enable the appropriate settings on the VMware side. All seems to have gone well, I can see the hosts in the ovirt interface, but when I attempt to create and start a VM it never gets past printing the SeaBios version and the machine UUID to the screen/console. It doesn't appear to try to boot from the hard disk or an ISO that I've attached.
>
> Has anyone else encountered similar behaviour?

I wouldn’t think you can even get that far.
It may work with full emulation (non-kvm) but we kind of enforce it in oVirt so some changes are likely needed.
Of course even if you succeed it’s going to be hopelessly slow. (or maybe it is indeed working and just runs very slow)

Nested on a KVM hypervisor runs ok

Thanks,
michal

In the past I was able to get an Openstack Icehouse environment running inside vSphere 5.x for a POC (on poweful physical servers) and performance of nested VMs inside the virtual compute nodes was acceptable.

More recently I configured a standalone ESXi server 6.0 U2 on a Nuc6 with 32Gb of ram and 2 ssd disks and on it I have now running 2 kinds of environments (just verified they are still on after some months I abandoned them to their destiny... ;-)

1) an ESXi VM acting as a single oVirt host (4.1.1 final or pre, I don't remember) with self hosted engine (that itself becomes an L2 VM) and also another VM (CentOS 6.8)

See here a screenshot of the web admin gui with a spice console open after connecting to the engine:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvanpTUnFuZ2FURms/view?usp=sharing

2) a virtual oVirt gluster environment based on 4.0.5 with 3 Virtual Hosts (with one as arbiter node if I remember correctly)

On this second environment I have ovirt01, virt02 and ovirt03 VMs:

[root@ovirt02 ~]# hosted-engine --vm-status

--== Host 1 status ==--

Status up-to-date : True

Hostname : ovirt01.localdomain.local

Host ID : 1

Engine status : {"reason": "vm not running on this host", "health": "bad", "vm": "down", "detail": "unknown"}

Score : 3042

stopped : False

Local maintenance : False

crc32 : 2041d7b6

Host timestamp : 15340856

Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):

metadata_parse_version=1

metadata_feature_version=1

timestamp=15340856 (Fri May 12 14:59:17 2017)

host-id=1

score=3042

maintenance=False

state=EngineDown

stopped=False

--== Host 2 status ==--

Status up-to-date : True

Hostname : 192.168.150.103

Host ID : 2

Engine status : {"health": "good", "vm": "up", "detail": "up"}

Score : 3400

stopped : False

Local maintenance : False

crc32 : 27a80001

Host timestamp : 15340760

Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):

metadata_parse_version=1

metadata_feature_version=1

timestamp=15340760 (Fri May 12 14:59:11 2017)

host-id=2

score=3400

maintenance=False

state=EngineUp

stopped=False

--== Host 3 status ==--

Status up-to-date : True

Hostname : ovirt03.localdomain.local

Host ID : 3

Engine status : {"reason": "vm not running on this host", "health": "bad", "vm": "down", "detail": "unknown"}

Score : 2986

stopped : False

Local maintenance : False

crc32 : 98aed4ec

Host timestamp : 15340475

Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):

metadata_parse_version=1

metadata_feature_version=1

timestamp=15340475 (Fri May 12 14:59:22 2017)

host-id=3

score=2986

maintenance=False

state=EngineDown

stopped=False

[root@ovirt02 ~]#

The virtual node ovirt02 has the hosted engine vm running on it

It was some months I didn't come back, but it seems it is still up... ;-)

[root@ovirt02 ~]# uptime

15:02:18 up 177 days, 13:26, 1 user, load average: 2.04, 1.46, 1.22

[root@ovirt02 ~]# free

total used free shared buff/cache available

Mem: 12288324 6941068 3977644 595204 1369612 4340808

Swap: 5242876 2980672 2262204

[root@ovirt02 ~]#

[root@ovirt02 ~]# ps -ef|grep qemu-kvm

qemu 18982 1 8 2016 ? 14-20:33:44 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name HostedEngine -S -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off

the first node (used for deploy with hostname ovirt01 and with name inside oVirt web admin gui of hosted_engine_1) has other 3 L2 VMs running

[root@ovirt01 ~]# ps -ef|grep qemu-kvm

qemu 125069 1 1 15:01 ? 00:00:11 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name atomic2 -S -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off

qemu 125186 1 2 15:02 ? 00:00:18 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name centos6 -S -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off

qemu 125329 1 1 15:02 ? 00:00:06 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name cirros3 -S -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off

I also tested live migration with success.

Furthermore all the 3 ESXI VMs hat are the 3 oVirt Hypervisors have still in place a VMware snapshot, because I was making a test with the idea of reverting after preliminary testing and this adds further load...

see here some screenshots:

ESXi with its 3 VMs that are the 3 oVirt hypervisors

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvWEtwM3otLU5uUkU/view?usp=sharing

oVirt Engine web admin portal with one L2 VM console open

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvS2I1eEREclBqSU0/view?usp=sharing

oVirt Engine web admin Hosts tab

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvWGcxV0xDUGpINlU/view?usp=sharing

oVrt Engine Gluster data domain

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvVkxMa1R2eGRfV2s/view?usp=sharing

Let me see and find the configuration settings I set up for it, because some months have gone and I then had little time to follow it...

In the mean time, what is the version of your ESXi environment? Because settings to put in place changed form version 5 to version 6.

What are particular settings you already configured for the ESXi VMs you plan to use as oVirt hypervisors?

Gianluca